Tag Archives: Moment

At the Speed of Light (Embrace the Blur)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In this pandemic, I am not especially getting a lot of outside time, right? But, I am sort of reviewing photography fundamentals. Anyone else studying anything or reviewing anything while a whole lot of inactivity is going on? At … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acorn, Air, Anticipate, Appearance, Artistic, Blind, Blur, Blurring, Blurry, Capture, Change, Connection, Crocodile Smile, Crucial, Curtain, Dab, Decide, Direction, Dog, Eloquent, Embrace, Exposure, Fast, Feeling, Flow, Forgot, Ghosting, Guide, Hear, Heart, Heartfelt, Hog, Iconic, Know, Lens, Light, Lock Down, Mile, Millimeter, Minute, Moment, Motion, Oblivious, Obvious, Pandemic, Panned Action, Phase Change, Photograph, Photographer, Photography, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quick, Satisfaction, Shot, Shutter Speed, Sink, Slow, Smile, Spark, Speed of Light, Spigot, Time, Unafraid, Wag, Water Drop | Leave a comment

It Came As It Did

Posted on April 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

First Friday and third day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020. Today’s prompt is to create a word bank based on 10 key words and then not necessarily using all but keeping in mind an effort to echo the rhymes for these until … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Academic, Act, Allegory, Allow, Anomaly, Avoid, Badly, Behave, Beset, Bight, Biochemical, Bite, Brave, Bright, Bright Side, Bungalow, Came, Cave, Cold Sweat, Come What May, Community, Compare, Dance, Depression, Destination, Did, Dog Day, Domino, Elf, Epidemic, Even So, Everything, Fair, Family, Fight, Find, Finite, Foreheads, Gave, Government, Hand, Here, Hesitation, Hold, Home, Hope, I, Immunity, Impression, Impunity, Interest, Isolated, Isolation, Laugh, Library, Light, Love, Mandatory, Mask, Matters, Meaning, Memory, Middle, Might, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo 20/20, Nation, Night, Noewhere, Noose, Old Play, Opportunity, Origins, Outline, Pair, Pandemic, Perfected, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Poor Me, Pour Me, Prayer, Promise, Psession, Question, Really, Recession, Regret, Roll, Rolling Wave, Rumor, Save, Science, Sew, Share, Shatters, Somewhere, Spread, Stare, Startle, Story, Stubbed Toe, Survive, Systemic, Tell, There, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transparency, Travel Ban, Trite, Understand, Unity, Watch, Weaponize, Window, Woe, Word Bank, World, You | Leave a comment

I of the Camera

Posted on April 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It’s the first official day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! So what’s the prompt, right? “… a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Blur, Break of Day, Camera, Close Up, Color, Composition, Conscious, Dance, Decision, Distance, Dreams, Emphasis, Extraordinary, Eye, Flow, Focal, God, Green, Heart, Human Being, I, Inner, Interesting, Keep, Learn, Lense, Lesson, Life, Light of Moon, Marvel, Moment, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Normal, Ordinary, Perspective, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Premises, Prime, Reflexive, Seeing, Self Portrait, Show, Soft, Softness, Soul, Stir, Stream, Telephoto, Thin, Time, Trick, Trip, Tune, View, Visual Poetry, Wide, Witness, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

Rise of the Common Man

Posted on March 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

This next in the series on American history expounds on the events of the rise of Jacksonian Democracy which is seen a pivotal as the era of the common man and precipitating the American Civil War. Rise of the Common … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abolition, Age, Alexis Tocqueville, America, American Civil War, American History, Andrew Jackson, Appeal, Ascend, Attention, Bible, Bindness, Brawl, Breath, Celibacy, Christianity, Clay, Common Man, Common Touch, Community, Comparison, Compulsive, Constitution, Cultural, Culture, Death, Declaration of Independence, Deism, Depravity, Devil, Dignity, Divine Soul, Elitsm, Emerson, Esteem, Europe, Evangelism, Family, Finney, Flame, Forge, Franchise, Frederick Douglas, Freedom, Frontiersman, Grace, Hawthorne, Human Pride, Impulsive, Inaguration, Ink, Intellectual, Jacksonian Democracy, John Quincy Adams, Literary, Mankind, Mass Democracy, Message, Moment, Mormonism, Muse, Nation, North, Nurture, Observation, Open Road, Original Sin, Pace, Paper, Perfection, Photograph, Pivot, Poem, Poetry, Politics of Deference, Populism, Preference, Presidency, Pronounce, Radical Humanism, Reality, Rise, Self Determinism, Self Made, Seminal, Slavery, Social Equality, Social Reform, Soul, Spiritual, Supernatural, Symptom, System, Tales, The American Scholar, The People, Top, Torment, Tragedy, Travel, Trinity, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Unitarianism, Unkindness, Untamed, Utopia, Vanguard, Walt Whitman, Wayside, William Lloyd Garrison, Wirtten, Write | Leave a comment

Souls On the Line

Posted on March 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever had that moment when you suddenly knew that however scary love is, you had met your forever in the eyes of the one you love? Souls On the Line by Michael Doyle My soul is on the line Wanting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Baby, Beautiful, Believe, Best of Love, Better, Beyond, Blind, Bliss, Broken, Choose, Clever, Dare, Doubt, Dream, Eyes, Feel, Feeling, Find, Forever, Happiness, Heart, Inside, Kind, Know, Life, Line, Love, Marking Time, Mind, Mine, Moment, Much, Must, Our, Out, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Puzzle, Reach, Real, Room, Soul, Spoken, Sublime, Surreal, Together, Touch, Travel, Trust, Want, Wonder, Words | Leave a comment

A Pirate’s Quest For More

Posted on March 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Beyond the treasures of the bounding main are those of peace, love and connection. A Pirate’s Quest For More by Michael Doyle We cannot be thieves forever Said the first mate being clever Better to score one last prize And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Alone, Beyond, Black Sails, Born, Bounding Main, Brave, Call, Clever, Confirmation, Connection, Crew, Dare, Deep, Desparation, Destination, Douse, Dream, Final, First Mate, Forever, Forge, Forsake, Future, Good Life, Hold On, Home, Hope, Island, Kingdom, Light, Love, Moment, More, Morning, Nation, Night, Nightmare, Noble, Peace, Photograph, Pirate, Plowshare, Poem, Poetry, Pressed Dry, Prize, Pursue, Quest, Refuge, Riches, Rum, Sailor, Sand, Score, Scuttle, Settle Down, Shoal, Shore, Siren, Song, Soul, Stand, Store, Sunlight, Sunny, Sunrise, Sweet Dreams, Thieves, Torchlight, Tranquil, Treasure, True Heart, Ulysses, Wife | Leave a comment

Creativity’s Golden Seed

Posted on February 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Coming soon to a mind near yours, the golden opportunity of a lifetime to have reasonable comfort while focusing on writing and photography. More information soon… let the transition begin… Creativity’s Golden Seed by Michael Romani The problem in its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Appearance, Application, Balance, Change, Conception, Conform, Creativity, Crux, Cut to the Chase, Deal, Deception, Definition, Defmor, Design, Ease, Exist, Eye, Find, First Step, Gold, Good, Gravity, Illusion, Important, Imposition, Moment, Momentum, Need, New Goals, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Problem, Question, Reason, Scale, Seed, Seek, Self Delusion, Severity, Signal, Simplicity, Superficial, Supplication, Touch, Transition, Troll, Understood, Why, Zenith | Leave a comment

Casted Cares

Posted on February 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A short devotional poem based on a short pier side devotional attended last night with Desiree: Casted Cares by Michael Romani Elijah spent his time of testing Spent in the crucible never resting Time spent alone where he confides Talking … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Amen, Capable, Care, Cast, Christ, Confide, Crucible, Decision, Desiree, Destiny, Devotional, Discern, Elijah, End, Friend, God, Inside, Journey, Learn, Life, Lord, Meaning, Moment, Patience, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Provision, Purpose, Right, Sermon, Tear, Test, Time, Trial, Trust, Walk, Wept, Yearn | Leave a comment

Moments Spent

Posted on February 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Spending time with my girls was an awesome experience as always. Moments Spent by Michael Romani Spending time with these two All of our moments are too few Dreams shaping in their minds Gifts of smiles of which I’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Apart, Away, Awesome, Beautiful, Behind, Best, Blind, Bone, Cleave, Close, Connection, Crystal Blue, Daughters, Depart, Direction, Do, Dreams, Eldest, Father, Few, Gift, Girls, Glory, Glow, Grow, Guide, Hand, Heart, Home, Hug, Kill, Know, Look, Lose, Love, Mile, Mind, Moment, Noble, Obstacle, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Present, Pride, Redouble, Rest, Say, See, Shape, Smile, Soul, Special, Spent, Spirit, Spun, Story, Survive, Tears, Time, Trouble, Valentine's Day, Watch, Write, Youngest | Leave a comment

Digital In Our Memories

Posted on February 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As some may know, I am exploring the nuances of virtual reality and integration of this into life in general. Digital In Our Memories by Michael Romani Digital in our memories Listless in our legacy We have no choice but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Biometrics, Cage, Captive, Cat, Choice, Collapse, Connection, Corridor, Creation, Creativity, Deduct, Deep, Demanding, Destroy, Digital, Distant, Equation, Exist, Eyes, Find, Ghost, Impatient, Integration, Joy, Legacy, Life, Linger, Listless, Lost, Memory, Mind, Moment, Nuance, Pass, Persist, Phoenix, Photograph, Pixel, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Rage, Reality, Recall, Rise, Schrodinger, Secret, See, Silent, Tear, Through, Time, Torment, True, Understanding, Viritual Reality, Voice, Zen | Leave a comment